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educated. step three: avoid mistakes. step four: don't be shortsighted. take the long view. and step five, the most important one that sums all this up: take action in small, consistent steps. let's go through them. if you're starting any journey, you have to know who you are, where you want to go. it's different for everybody. everybody has a different time horizon. it's different if you're 25 than if you're 75. everybody has a different risk tolerance. for example, only two kinds of people come off a roller coaster, one that says, "what a rush. "oh, that was great. i want to do that again," and the other that throws up. you have to know which one you are. i can see from your reaction, many of you already have made that decision. you have to know about your family, people you care about, people you want to provide for. when i do planning, a lot of parents say to me, "you know, it's not my kids i'm worried about. it's the ones they marry." [laughter] that is true. all right, so this is somethin
educated. step three: avoid mistakes. step four: don't be shortsighted. take the long view. and step five, the most important one that sums all this up: take action in small, consistent steps. let's go through them. if you're starting any journey, you have to know who you are, where you want to go. it's different for everybody. everybody has a different time horizon. it's different if you're 25 than if you're 75. everybody has a different risk tolerance. for example, only two kinds of people...
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>> my father was an educator, and my mother was an educator as well. most my growing up, though, my mother stayed at home. they met at a private school in north carolina. she was teaching english. he was teaching math. and they ended up getting married. they came from families, though, that really taught them to expect the best of themselves and everybody else. and they both came from families that caught them the power and the importance of struggle. and so i grew up in a family that was educated, that valued education, but also understood that those of us within the black community who were managing to do well had an obligation to the rest of the community and being a part of the naacp and being an activist in the community and caring about what was going on was very important in my household. >> let me go at this question of education. i read one of your studies. one of them talks about the need for education in the future. and i think you say that by the end of this decade, at least 45% to 46% of our jobs in america will depend upon at least some c
>> my father was an educator, and my mother was an educator as well. most my growing up, though, my mother stayed at home. they met at a private school in north carolina. she was teaching english. he was teaching math. and they ended up getting married. they came from families, though, that really taught them to expect the best of themselves and everybody else. and they both came from families that caught them the power and the importance of struggle. and so i grew up in a family that was...
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the students the traditional higher education has given up on. traditional higher education has become a very sociodemographically elite group of people. if you're not wealthy or upper middle class, you're not going to get into a traditional higher education system. so the only options lower-income students and working adults have is either to go to a community college, some of them can go to minority-serving institutions, and our option is the third option. >> smith: what remains troubling is, that on average, the debt load of for-profit students is more than twice that of students at traditional schools. >> unlike a public community college, where a small grant will usually cover most of the tuition, for the for-profit colleges the tuition requires substantial borrowing, so a student who drops out or doesn't get a high-paying job, sooner or later they have to pay the piper, and that can mean tens or even hundreds of thousands of loans that they have to pay back. >> smith: that's what happened to anne cobb. >> i had two young girls, and i was tr
the students the traditional higher education has given up on. traditional higher education has become a very sociodemographically elite group of people. if you're not wealthy or upper middle class, you're not going to get into a traditional higher education system. so the only options lower-income students and working adults have is either to go to a community college, some of them can go to minority-serving institutions, and our option is the third option. >> smith: what remains...
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, education, education. -- the vehicle for pushbackwas education, education, education. the teachers in the south, they viewed their ability to improve issues of race in our country was to make sure that they got every ounce of potential out of every kid that they took care of in the segregated public schools. so, whatever those schools might have lacked in resources, books, ph.d. teachers, master's degree teachers, whatever it might be, they more than made up for by teachers who wanted to motivate them and encourage them and guide them to do their best. it was never part of a unique strategy, it was just the environment that i was in. another was a teacher, my aunt was a teacher. that is what i grew up again. i ended up going away to school in the ninth grade. my education in the ninth grade on was not in the segregated south but was in new england and in california. tavis: did it scare you in new england coming out of memphis? [laughter] >> you are right. tavis: especially back then. >> no, i did not. i did what i had to do. i did what i was supposed to do. i had almos
, education, education. -- the vehicle for pushbackwas education, education, education. the teachers in the south, they viewed their ability to improve issues of race in our country was to make sure that they got every ounce of potential out of every kid that they took care of in the segregated public schools. so, whatever those schools might have lacked in resources, books, ph.d. teachers, master's degree teachers, whatever it might be, they more than made up for by teachers who wanted to...
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>> well, i think the work we're doing in education. i didn't start out working in education. when i first moved to washington i was working on civil and constitutional rights issues and i have come to a place where i feel so passionately about this because i believe this is better educating our kids, that's the key to greater opportunity for them and greater opportunity for us as a nation. so i want to accomplish as much as possible in the education sphere and working with people. i was talking to two c.e.o.s recently, ed rust who heads state farm, bill green who heading a censure and they were saying we got together recently, we spent time talking about business and we spent a couple hours talking about education. i mean, people recognize how critical this is and how important this is and i think about the kids i encountered along the way. you look in their eyes and there's so much hope, so much desire. and i think that we can meet this. i'm energized by this challenge to meet this and i know that this president has created an opportunity for us to work together and to get t
>> well, i think the work we're doing in education. i didn't start out working in education. when i first moved to washington i was working on civil and constitutional rights issues and i have come to a place where i feel so passionately about this because i believe this is better educating our kids, that's the key to greater opportunity for them and greater opportunity for us as a nation. so i want to accomplish as much as possible in the education sphere and working with people. i was...
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now one key difference between working and not working clearly is education. robert reich was the labor secretary under president clinton. he is now at the u. of california at berkeley and author of "super capitalism" now in paperback. mister secretary, welcome back to "nightly business report." as you know, we've seen the government response targeted on jobs to be focused on tax breaks for instance, for small businesses a temporary give-back of payroll tax for instance. would that government stimulus money be better spent in the classroom? >> look tom, financial capital is important in this nation. we bailed out wall street. but human capital, the skills and insights of our people over the long term are much, much more important to the standard of living in this country. and we are not bailing out our schools or our public universities. and we ought to be. >> tom: what is your suggestion to local policy makers, to university regents for instance that are setting budgets. where do they find the dollars to begin to invest in education like what you suggest? >>
now one key difference between working and not working clearly is education. robert reich was the labor secretary under president clinton. he is now at the u. of california at berkeley and author of "super capitalism" now in paperback. mister secretary, welcome back to "nightly business report." as you know, we've seen the government response targeted on jobs to be focused on tax breaks for instance, for small businesses a temporary give-back of payroll tax for instance....
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education. long-time friend and fellow basketball player with president obama in chicago. he's the former head of the school system in chicago. there of course is secretary chu in front of him. behind him is the veteran affairs secretary. janet napolitano behind him, homeland security. there on the left you see the left side senator john kerry of massachusetts, now chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. a man who was of course in 2004 the democrat nominee for president. now we see behind secretary napolitano bill daley former secretary of commerce in the clinton administration and now the new white house chief of staff. replaced rahm emanuel who is back in chicago to see if he can become mayor. he is now shaking hands with tom coburn, senator coburn of oklahoma. now, of course, the big deal here... there is secretary clinton laughing with secretary gates and secretary geithner. there on the right is senator sessions. my guess is they're laughing about the idea that they've got all..
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so we put ourselves in a tough position as educators. had we triple the expenditures and student achievement levels has also tripled, then we could go to politicians who were trying to cut the budget and say if you cut by 10%, we'll show you what the decrease in student achievement would look like. however, because we have increased expenditures and state levels have remained stagnant, we have created a situation that is hard to argue against. as americans, what we have to do is stop buying into the same old arguments that what we need to fix the system is more money, and began to look instead at where the money we are spending is actually going. >> whenever i speak to business leaders in the country and they talk about their fears about american competitiveness were generally, replacing all those manufacturing jobs we have lost and fixing the economic situation, they say it is simple, we just have to fix education. that is what they are all talking about. you have had firsthand experience with the politics of trying to fix education in
so we put ourselves in a tough position as educators. had we triple the expenditures and student achievement levels has also tripled, then we could go to politicians who were trying to cut the budget and say if you cut by 10%, we'll show you what the decrease in student achievement would look like. however, because we have increased expenditures and state levels have remained stagnant, we have created a situation that is hard to argue against. as americans, what we have to do is stop buying...
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one of the major issues right now, advice see education -- vis-a-vis education is no child left behind. we hope between now and when kids go back it school in the fall what will happen with no child left behind, mr. superintendent? >> we have done -- the one thing that no child left behind has done which is a benefit is it's shown us in a very crude way how catastrophic the outcops are for children, especially children living in poverty and i choose that word carefully. catastrophic is what it is. i mean, our kids from poverty are showing up at kindergarten with a third the number of words that they've heard as more affluent children. and only nine out of 100 kids coming from a poor zip code in this country can expect to graduate wait from a four-year college. which means that 91 are not. at the eighth grade only 16 or 17 of those 100 kids are proficient readers or mathematicians. those are the kinds of outcomes that no one with an education would ever tolerate for their kids. so we got to change the system. and my view coming out of the superintendent is almost everything, all the inc
one of the major issues right now, advice see education -- vis-a-vis education is no child left behind. we hope between now and when kids go back it school in the fall what will happen with no child left behind, mr. superintendent? >> we have done -- the one thing that no child left behind has done which is a benefit is it's shown us in a very crude way how catastrophic the outcops are for children, especially children living in poverty and i choose that word carefully. catastrophic is...
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education programs he wants. that's more discretionary money than all his predecessors combined. >> i want to take to scale what is really working and take those packages of things together to say if we do all these things we can get dramatically better. if we have the best and brightest teachers where we need them, if we have great principals, if we're working with great nonprofits, if we have common high standards and great data systems behind that, if we do these things well, we can make a huge difference in our students' lives. >> reporter: but like tougher standards and more tests, most of these ideas have been tried before. >> i would like to see the secretary point to a district where they have done... some district that has done what he recommends and where you can say "now there's the district that's turned around." >> reporter: katie haycock sees things differently. >> what i think most state people will tell you is these are things we knew we needed to do, things we wanted to do but the politics of doi
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for me to challenge a child, their right to education, a girl's right to education, it is a fundamental violation. >> you think this is isolated to that region where they still have an influence? >> i think we have seen an erosion of rights over the past few years, and we have seen women and girls being targeted more and more by extremist elements. it shows fundamentally that there is a real power struggle going on, but part of the power struggle is being fought on the lines of gender and gender-based violence. >> when you see what is happening nbc our report, he recently returned from afghanistan. how optimistic are you that the improvements that have been made in the last three years in terms of getting girls in the school and allowing them to stay there will be upheld once nato forces leave? >> i think there is a commitment amongst community to keeping children in school and seeing girls in school. we saw a tremendous increase in the number of girls in school in afghanistan once they were pushed out of power. you still have 3 million girls out of school, 35 million worldwide. there i
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education and religion. the content of the prayers have to be approved by the local authorities. even the leaders are state employed. they are all civil servants. the schools were set up to educate at religious officials, but the state decreed that most of the curriculum is not religious. the same goes for the ambitions of many of the students. i would like to be a doctor or engineer, says this person. a doctor? maybe that is to meet ambitious, but perhaps a computer engineer. why did the parents choose the schools? >> by offering religious education, we want to raise children who are respectful to their families, who are not in conflict with the values of society, and whose main ambition is to serve the nation. >> this person is a graduate, of a teacher, and a devout muslim. she argues that has not hamper her freedoms or aspirations. >> the school had a big influence on me. and offered a lot of freedom and broke down a lot of the radicalism. our teachers have different opinions and that allowed us to explor
education and religion. the content of the prayers have to be approved by the local authorities. even the leaders are state employed. they are all civil servants. the schools were set up to educate at religious officials, but the state decreed that most of the curriculum is not religious. the same goes for the ambitions of many of the students. i would like to be a doctor or engineer, says this person. a doctor? maybe that is to meet ambitious, but perhaps a computer engineer. why did the...
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most states finance higher education based on a full-time enrollment. they base their funding based on how many people enroll and not how many complete. we understand that that's a very complicated issue. but i think over time we need to be looking at both the enrollment and the completion . >> brown: i'm wondering just as you said given the differences in low cals and states, is it possible to create a national rubric for the funding questions for the standards questions? >> i think a good place to start would be to agree on a national measure for measuring what a graduation rate looks like. >> brown: is that possible, mary spilde, given the differences that many of your members must face? >> well, it's true that we have state systems and we have locally governed community colleges but obviously we're very committed to student success. i think the voluntary framework of accountability that is being worked on right now actually funded by the gates foundation and other foundations will give us some measures that local colleges will be able to adopt. >> b
most states finance higher education based on a full-time enrollment. they base their funding based on how many people enroll and not how many complete. we understand that that's a very complicated issue. but i think over time we need to be looking at both the enrollment and the completion . >> brown: i'm wondering just as you said given the differences in low cals and states, is it possible to create a national rubric for the funding questions for the standards questions? >> i...
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once he had that college education, he was able to pass on that transformative power of education to his children, my father and his sister, and on the other side my grandparents were determined and educated all five of their kids. what education is not everything, without it, you really cannot have a chance in modern life, and i'm just grateful that all the way back to my grandparents it was valued. tavis: you were an only child, your mother and father of both deceased. i want to go back to your childhood in birmingham. at first, i think some people are trying to figure out -- i have talked to you a number of times and i think i get it, but for those who don't know how it is you could have grown up in segregated birmingham, alabama, friends with two girls who lost their lives in the 16th street baptist church, one of them your dear friend, how does one espoused views, the beliefs, the political ideas that you believe? how does one end up on that side of the aisle with that upbringing? >> but first, i have to say that people have an awfully vanilla, simplistic view of what people thi
once he had that college education, he was able to pass on that transformative power of education to his children, my father and his sister, and on the other side my grandparents were determined and educated all five of their kids. what education is not everything, without it, you really cannot have a chance in modern life, and i'm just grateful that all the way back to my grandparents it was valued. tavis: you were an only child, your mother and father of both deceased. i want to go back to...
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education is the difference. while education is terribly important to your earlier point, there are a number of factors that sent you this way and him that way. how go do you get folks use this text --you know what i'm going with this, as a rod to beat negros over the head and say see, all you have to do is get a good education. >> that's not to take away the importance of education. tavis: exactly. >> however, there are a whole lot of factors that will determine what type of education that person is going to achieve. one thing i firmly believe is kids are going to learn. the question is what are they learning and who is teaching them. where education plays a huge role in the actual trajectory of young people, my grandfather used to say education is like a skeleton key and if you can get that skeleton key and get that education you can open up any door. and i firmly believe that. but i also believe this. the people you have in your lives affect what type of education you receive and how that session used and tran
education is the difference. while education is terribly important to your earlier point, there are a number of factors that sent you this way and him that way. how go do you get folks use this text --you know what i'm going with this, as a rod to beat negros over the head and say see, all you have to do is get a good education. >> that's not to take away the importance of education. tavis: exactly. >> however, there are a whole lot of factors that will determine what type of...
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kids, we know it's important to their education, education's important to their college. for too many kids, the link between school, college, job is just, there's gaps. we've tried now, we've got five high schools. >> rose: the perception. >> charlie the way i try to explain it to people, i got kids who live four miles from downtown and downtown is just a world apart from them. all the possibility there. and the education system finish high school so you can go to college. it's just not part of their world experience. so now we set assist tells high schools, science technology engineering, ninth grade to 14th it has the counseling, the mentor. you finish all the way to 14th, great. two year college. you will get your first interview at the school that is oracle, motorola solutions, microsoft, ibm, verizon. they've all each taken a high school. when i announce this, one high school on vocational school, they had a person specific just to answer phone calls from parents figuring how to enroll their kids. for these kids, they don't see high school finishing and relating to a
kids, we know it's important to their education, education's important to their college. for too many kids, the link between school, college, job is just, there's gaps. we've tried now, we've got five high schools. >> rose: the perception. >> charlie the way i try to explain it to people, i got kids who live four miles from downtown and downtown is just a world apart from them. all the possibility there. and the education system finish high school so you can go to college. it's just...
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tavis: you are right about that. >> i really appreciate the way of higher education and high education in america. the -- education of china is very great and it should not be so many people who are criticizing this. i think that we have different ways of learning things. in our school, we are just may be learning more than thinking but in america, they read a lot and they think more. i don't think that american students care so much about their scores but actually some of us care about it because this is kind of our access to a better university. tavis: the competition is much different. >> yeah. so, it is hard to compare the two education systems. i think that this is a different kind of education system for a different kind of people. i think we have quite different cultures and history. tavis: i will give you the last word, doc. aboutrious what you think what she said. >> one thing we have to recognize is that you have brilliance, high intelligence, and even habits in both countries. what is distinctive about china is that you all are moving so quickly and the u.s. has had universi
tavis: you are right about that. >> i really appreciate the way of higher education and high education in america. the -- education of china is very great and it should not be so many people who are criticizing this. i think that we have different ways of learning things. in our school, we are just may be learning more than thinking but in america, they read a lot and they think more. i don't think that american students care so much about their scores but actually some of us care about...
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if i regret anything, it is that i did not have an education. with education comes choice. with choice becomes ownership. i have always felt so disconnected from my own life until i was 27 years old. tavis: one of the greatest ways, it seems to me, to be educated is to travel. you have traveled the world. what did you learn in all that travel, if he could put that in a statement, and second, as you look back on your career, did you really get a chance to take in enough? i am assuming when you are famous and you are traveling and not for any other purpose than to play in these tournaments, you do not a chance to take it all in. >> i am in absolute expert on airports, hotels, tennis courts. tavis: you learned that. >> i never got a chance to really get out. you are preparing for tennis, a full-time job. i think what i learned, though, i think i learn how similar all our journeys are in life, regardless of your circumstances. we all have fears, dreams, hopes, it is not my children in las vegas. it is our children. we are also connected. i wanted to take what i had been through
if i regret anything, it is that i did not have an education. with education comes choice. with choice becomes ownership. i have always felt so disconnected from my own life until i was 27 years old. tavis: one of the greatest ways, it seems to me, to be educated is to travel. you have traveled the world. what did you learn in all that travel, if he could put that in a statement, and second, as you look back on your career, did you really get a chance to take in enough? i am assuming when you...
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>> you are absolutely right that education is a right, a high- quality education. it has to be the right of every child in this country. it should not be a question as to whether some kids get it and some kids don't. i do think what the obama administration is trying to do was the right idea, meaning instead of continuing to funnel out federal dollars without a lot of accountability, which obviously has proven not to be particularly effective, to say we are going to use the carrot approach. we are going to put dollars up there to say if states can change their regulations, their laws, their policies, to ensure we can have more competition, to ensure we are rewarding high- performing teachers and closing down low-performing schools -- we are going to in sent -- incent you to do that. i do not think anybody can quarrel with the fact that we saw more legislative movement on education reform because of race to the top than we had for the two decades before then. tavis: i raised this issue because it concerns me. the government can mandate through this program that kids
>> you are absolutely right that education is a right, a high- quality education. it has to be the right of every child in this country. it should not be a question as to whether some kids get it and some kids don't. i do think what the obama administration is trying to do was the right idea, meaning instead of continuing to funnel out federal dollars without a lot of accountability, which obviously has proven not to be particularly effective, to say we are going to use the carrot...
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he would rather it this and be educated on his un. >> -- dan be educated on his un. >> you can do team work and have a sports days. >> island schools like this are often small, gathering children from many isolated places. >> i am quite short. >> [unintelligible] >> and as well as play, there are positive benefits to his education. >> we have a staff that comes every week. they come to do music and physical education. they get the most experience. >> it is the end of the school day, in most of the schoolchildren are heading home. jordan still has one more class to go and he will be on his own as he catches up on the lessons he has missed. when that class for one is over, it is finally time for jordan to make the long journey back to his island home. bbc news, orkney. >> already the response from you for people featured in this series has been huge. thank you so much. you can find out more and about how millions of children around the world struggle to get an education at bbc.com/worldclass. do send us your own stories. inside is a verified the existence of a flying reptile in north chi
he would rather it this and be educated on his un. >> -- dan be educated on his un. >> you can do team work and have a sports days. >> island schools like this are often small, gathering children from many isolated places. >> i am quite short. >> [unintelligible] >> and as well as play, there are positive benefits to his education. >> we have a staff that comes every week. they come to do music and physical education. they get the most experience....
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the a brazilian workforce is not very well educated. the quality of education is low. but it is possible to improve our education by investing our resources. we should improve the performance of our teachers. >> wages are very low, $10,000 a year. >> they are very low. in order to improve the situation, we need to lead the way of the performance. but teachers that are there every day doing a good job, they're getting better paid and improving in their career. if you pay everyone the same, there is no way they're going to put more effort. >> let's put this in the context of the other brics. order they doing that brazil is not doing? >> there is the example of china, for example. people think shanghai has done with very well. those other emerging economies are growing a lot based on productivity. brazil has been growing by employing more people but now unemployment is very low. the only way we can grow further in the future is by improving our productivity. in order to do that we have to introduce new innovation and technology. the only way to do that is having a more qu
the a brazilian workforce is not very well educated. the quality of education is low. but it is possible to improve our education by investing our resources. we should improve the performance of our teachers. >> wages are very low, $10,000 a year. >> they are very low. in order to improve the situation, we need to lead the way of the performance. but teachers that are there every day doing a good job, they're getting better paid and improving in their career. if you pay everyone the...
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it's the -- paekz, where women don't get educated -- children are denied a basic education. >> charlie: what is the goal you have in terms of capital? >> my first goal would be that somebody who signed the billionaires pledge which i love bill and melinda and warren baufrnsett would make a large investment. for $100 million we could establish 20,000 rural libraries. 100 million dollars would establish 20,000 libraries which would be enough to actually reach an additional 10 million children. so it's not -- it's very, very leveraged money. that 5,000 per library, you're looking at about $20 per child to change a kid's life forever so when i say we want to reach literally 10's of millions and hundreds of millions of kids i hope it's not hub ristic, i hope it's real because the re-- i hope it's not hubristic, but this issue has been overlooked way too long because 90% of the people in the world today who are illiterate live in the developed world. what room to read is trying to say is let's not overlook it because we can change this issue. it's a lever with which we can move the earth. >>
it's the -- paekz, where women don't get educated -- children are denied a basic education. >> charlie: what is the goal you have in terms of capital? >> my first goal would be that somebody who signed the billionaires pledge which i love bill and melinda and warren baufrnsett would make a large investment. for $100 million we could establish 20,000 rural libraries. 100 million dollars would establish 20,000 libraries which would be enough to actually reach an additional 10 million...
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they use technology to make education effective and accessible. the internet mobile devices and social tools are giving students new potential, giving those thousands of miles away free access, the best educational institutions in the world. >> anybody in the world should be able to take high quality courses whether at the college level or high school. they should be able to take it freely. >> the amount of investment in ed tech quadrupled to 630 million in 2012. over the same period, the number of companies funded quadrupled from 23 to 95. >> with tablets and open content we can have blended high schools that give hundreds of millions of kids a shot at college and the idea economies. >> one of the areas drawing the most attention is higher education. startups offering free online courses from top universities. like corsara that raised more than $65 million. already generating more than a million dollars in revenue and launching an alliance of educators and employers, nine mayor companies including google and at&t to help them provide training for
they use technology to make education effective and accessible. the internet mobile devices and social tools are giving students new potential, giving those thousands of miles away free access, the best educational institutions in the world. >> anybody in the world should be able to take high quality courses whether at the college level or high school. they should be able to take it freely. >> the amount of investment in ed tech quadrupled to 630 million in 2012. over the same...
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even though germany is a first world country, my education, my access to high quality contemporary education was not that great. most were professors who aren't informed of what's going on in the world. for many years, for more than a decade i've been dreaming with taking the university to the world rather than locking it up and charging $40,000 a year for access. i got my wakeup call when i heard a wonderful, wonderful fellow, solomon kahn. >> rose: at at this table. >> he just recorded himself for his nieces and all of a sudden he had, like, hundreds of thousands of people being enlightened by what he recorded. hi wasn't even a professor. he was a former financial guy. so the most unlikely person you'd think of to think about education starts with what i consider possibly the most important revolution in education today. >> rose: somebody put it on youtube and it became enormously... >> yeah, it's an unbelievable story. it's an amazing innovation story. we should really embrace it. so i felt embarrassed. i was at stanford teaching my typical 200 students. but by... it's like five minutes o
even though germany is a first world country, my education, my access to high quality contemporary education was not that great. most were professors who aren't informed of what's going on in the world. for many years, for more than a decade i've been dreaming with taking the university to the world rather than locking it up and charging $40,000 a year for access. i got my wakeup call when i heard a wonderful, wonderful fellow, solomon kahn. >> rose: at at this table. >> he just...
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america, we see education more as a social issue. it is not something we are investing in to fix the economy. it is something that gets cut when the budget times are tough. >> is a solution really money? america spends more per child on its education and other countries. >> is not an issue of how much wheat we are spending -- how much we e spending. over the last 20, 30 years we have tripled the amount of money we're spending per child on public education, and yet the results have remained stagnant. part of the problem is that we in the u.s. i don't think are using our money wisely or effectively. >> then you start getting into extreme political territory with people having very different views on how that money should be spent. >> right. this is one of the things that we push. transparency with budgets. so that everyone can see where our schools, districts, state's spending education dollars and what kind of return on investment are those dollars getting. if we were able to look at the data from that perspective, then we would have
america, we see education more as a social issue. it is not something we are investing in to fix the economy. it is something that gets cut when the budget times are tough. >> is a solution really money? america spends more per child on its education and other countries. >> is not an issue of how much wheat we are spending -- how much we e spending. over the last 20, 30 years we have tripled the amount of money we're spending per child on public education, and yet the results have...
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it the system has to allow the talents to be educated. right now we d't have that system because our education system has stayed controlled. china gets to where it is, not by being stayed controlled but by being entrepreneurial by being privatized and the education has to be privatized. >> charlie: and everybody understands that from the top down? >> i don't think so. >> charlie: they don't. >> i don't think so. people are still thinking we've done great in getting rid of e illiteracy. and yet the quality of the education is still not there. >> charlie: people talk about bubbles. one is a real estate bubble. do you worry about that? >> i don't. you will laugh because i'm a developer and of course i would say that. if you look at where china is today, the chinese government a year ago, i would be quite worried about the bubbles because so much money is going into the chinese real estate and soany buildings are being built and yet the utility of the buildings are not as good as the speed of the utility of the buildings. >> charlie: does tha
it the system has to allow the talents to be educated. right now we d't have that system because our education system has stayed controlled. china gets to where it is, not by being stayed controlled but by being entrepreneurial by being privatized and the education has to be privatized. >> charlie: and everybody understands that from the top down? >> i don't think so. >> charlie: they don't. >> i don't think so. people are still thinking we've done great in getting rid...
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in order to have our education, whether it is at k-12 or higher education. he said in his speech that we have the finest universities on the planet, and people from all over the world want to come to attend universities in america. that is a strong point of pride, and appropriately the president emphasized education along with innovation to keep our country prosperous and moving forward. and the building, also, i thought was important as well. tavis: i have heard more of the state of the union address as i can count in my short lifetime and i cannot recall a single state of the union speech where i did not hear my president, republican or democrat, say that education was critical, education is key. every president wants to be the education president. you had your own unique battles and flora around the issue of education, and it is true with all politics -- you had your own battles in florida. why is it that every president wants to be the education president, yet we are still lagging so far behind? >> it is an enormous challenge, no question. i think the pr
in order to have our education, whether it is at k-12 or higher education. he said in his speech that we have the finest universities on the planet, and people from all over the world want to come to attend universities in america. that is a strong point of pride, and appropriately the president emphasized education along with innovation to keep our country prosperous and moving forward. and the building, also, i thought was important as well. tavis: i have heard more of the state of the union...
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we can through education... we should try to tackle poverty. we should absolutely do everything we can to lesson poverty but we don't need to wait for that. we can literally provide education that changes kids' lives. >> rose: we conclude with the great mexican writer carlos fuentes. >> i'm a writer and when i was very young i had the fear of the the blank page, the white page. it was like a monster. now i don't have that. every evening i know what i'm going to write the next day. but during the nighttime, dreams come and then i see things very differently. it's very magical but it keeps me open to mystery. >> rose: libya, teach for america and carlos fuentes when we continue. seven years ago, i had this idea. to make baby food the way moms would. happybaby strives to make the best organic baby food. in a business like ours, personal connections are so important. we use our american express open gold card to further those connections. last year we took dozens of trips using membership rewards points to meet with
we can through education... we should try to tackle poverty. we should absolutely do everything we can to lesson poverty but we don't need to wait for that. we can literally provide education that changes kids' lives. >> rose: we conclude with the great mexican writer carlos fuentes. >> i'm a writer and when i was very young i had the fear of the the blank page, the white page. it was like a monster. now i don't have that. every evening i know what i'm going to write the next day....
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and education is not housing, by the way. you know. --. >> brown: richard veder, you can come back in this. the-- go ahead. >> an interesting point was raised there. there is another dimension that hasn't been mentioned, and that is 40%, 45% of the students who entered traditional four-year university or college education don't graduate. and i don't mean in four years. i mean in six years. so there's an enormous amount of risk being taken by a lot of students, and a lot of those risks relate to the fact that colleges and universities are often admitting students who they full well know have a limited probability of success but they take them in anyway. this is not the weslayan's of the world. that's a high-quality yrvth elite, private school. but many schools have very high cropp out rates and that's another dimension of this that hasn't been picked up in all this talk about truth and beauty and having people learn about egyptian civilization-- i'm all for people learning about egyptian civil zane. four out of five students w
and education is not housing, by the way. you know. --. >> brown: richard veder, you can come back in this. the-- go ahead. >> an interesting point was raised there. there is another dimension that hasn't been mentioned, and that is 40%, 45% of the students who entered traditional four-year university or college education don't graduate. and i don't mean in four years. i mean in six years. so there's an enormous amount of risk being taken by a lot of students, and a lot of those...
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teachers, unions, principals, the department of education. all of vus to behave in very different ways and do lab rate to get the kind of dramatic breakthroughs that we need. what teachers have said and unions have said very clearly is they want reform happening with them. not too them. and i couldn't agree more. that's how i've always operated. anyone who thinks we can get the kind of success we have to have without including teachers in the implementation of these reforms, in the thought process of these reforms is kidding themselves. it's the right way to get where we need to go. >> what about this comment today from the national education association, quote f we continue to focus narrowly on test scores, then students in need of the most support will continue to get more test prep rather than the rich, challenging, engaging education they deserve. >> i absolutely agree. and no one is focusing just on test scores. i argued a lot i was worried about the narrowing of the curriculum. what we want to do is give students particularly the early
teachers, unions, principals, the department of education. all of vus to behave in very different ways and do lab rate to get the kind of dramatic breakthroughs that we need. what teachers have said and unions have said very clearly is they want reform happening with them. not too them. and i couldn't agree more. that's how i've always operated. anyone who thinks we can get the kind of success we have to have without including teachers in the implementation of these reforms, in the thought...
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education stocks ran to some new highs as the u.s. department of education continues work on a new rule directed at the industry. the regulation aims to make sure graduates can make enough money to pay back their student loans. if they don't, the schools federal student loans eligibility would be at risk. the worry is that the rule may cut into profits at education management, devry, i.t.t., and corinthian by limiting student loans. credit suisse thinks the education department will exempt schools from the requirement if they meet certain graduation and employment thresholds. all four rallied on heavier volume. tonight's triple digit gainer comes from the world of drug development, as is often the case. molecular insight pharmaceutical is a micro-cap company, even after today's 128% jump in its stock price. phase two clinical trials of a cancer drug show symptoms
education stocks ran to some new highs as the u.s. department of education continues work on a new rule directed at the industry. the regulation aims to make sure graduates can make enough money to pay back their student loans. if they don't, the schools federal student loans eligibility would be at risk. the worry is that the rule may cut into profits at education management, devry, i.t.t., and corinthian by limiting student loans. credit suisse thinks the education department will exempt...
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over the last ten years, we've slipped from a nation that educated more of our people with college education and now i think we rank about ninth. that happened in just a ten- year period of time. so making college more affordable for more families is critically important to making this transition to an innovation economy, creating jobs in this new economy for the future. all of those things that the former governor cited, the charges for dorms and food and those things, they went up when he was governor as well. what he had the discretion to do or not to do was to make investments in higher education so that kids did not get hit with a 40% increase for in state college. i watch those numbers very closely about how many students are coming out of state, how many are coming in state. the fact of the matter is they've remained very constant over the last five, six years. but you had the ability, governor, to do as i did which was to freeze college tuition. for your first three years in office you never did it. in fact, one of your biggest accomplishments was to force a 40% increase in college t
over the last ten years, we've slipped from a nation that educated more of our people with college education and now i think we rank about ninth. that happened in just a ten- year period of time. so making college more affordable for more families is critically important to making this transition to an innovation economy, creating jobs in this new economy for the future. all of those things that the former governor cited, the charges for dorms and food and those things, they went up when he was...
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geoffrey canada, educator extraordinaire. there is none greater in the country better than geoffrey canada. i am happy to have you on the program. if you see one documentary this year, make it "waiting for superman." that visit our show for tonight. until next time, keep the faith. tavis: join me next time for a conversation with the award winning crime novelist james conroy. that is next time. we will see you then. >> all i know is his name is james and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference, thank you. you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance support tavis smiley. nationwide is happy to join him in fighting literacy. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.
geoffrey canada, educator extraordinaire. there is none greater in the country better than geoffrey canada. i am happy to have you on the program. if you see one documentary this year, make it "waiting for superman." that visit our show for tonight. until next time, keep the faith. tavis: join me next time for a conversation with the award winning crime novelist james conroy. that is next time. we will see you then. >> all i know is his name is james and he needs extra help with...
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significant cuts to education. higher ned particular. >> pelley: layoffs. >> double-digit tuition increases coming up across the country in public systems. >> woodruff: and is there a lesson, susan urahn, in what's happening in minnesota for other states or vice versa? >> well, i'd go back to what rachel was saying about the public. we did a study last year looking at where the public was in fiscally stressed states and what the public wants more than anything is they want government to run well. they want efficient and effective government. they want it to operate smoothly. this is not an example of government operating very smoothly and i think the public's trust in government is very low and this is not going to help. >> woodruff: very quickly back to you, rachel stassen-berger. in minneapolis, what do you look for next? is there even a meeting scheduled? >> my guess is that they will continue meeting and eventually is a break through. but, you know, we are the epitome of divided state right now. not only did we
significant cuts to education. higher ned particular. >> pelley: layoffs. >> double-digit tuition increases coming up across the country in public systems. >> woodruff: and is there a lesson, susan urahn, in what's happening in minnesota for other states or vice versa? >> well, i'd go back to what rachel was saying about the public. we did a study last year looking at where the public was in fiscally stressed states and what the public wants more than anything is they...
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the education. and we're saying look if other people want to come in and provide state funded education, now that is one of the most exciting reform programs that we've got. part of it is inspired by what is-- . >> rose: and doesn't cost a lot. >> well, it's-- it's about the allocation of resources, not necessarily more or less resources but we've been inspired partly by what we've seen work in parts of the united states. for example, new york schools reform has been very influential in the education debate. >> rose: you believe in shorter schools. >> it a version, i a british version of the charter school. >> your prime minister in an interview with me during the campaign, he said his government was about compassionate conservatism. where is the compassion going to be? >> well, the compassion infuses everything we do. that we are looking as we undertake some of these very difficult decisions on the budget. and after all we are not the people that ran up the budget deficit. but as we deal with that,
the education. and we're saying look if other people want to come in and provide state funded education, now that is one of the most exciting reform programs that we've got. part of it is inspired by what is-- . >> rose: and doesn't cost a lot. >> well, it's-- it's about the allocation of resources, not necessarily more or less resources but we've been inspired partly by what we've seen work in parts of the united states. for example, new york schools reform has been very...
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they undermine education. the acculumation of evidence was such that i found i could no longer support no child left behind or any of these programs that say that teachers should compete with one another because they don't. teachers want to work together. they know that they're on the same team. they want to collaborate. the essence of every good school is collaboration and teamwork not competition. >> suarez: another big change in the years you've been talking about has seen foundations become big players in proposing and advocating new educational policies including privatization, parental control, increased use of charter schools. have have the foundations been a worthwhile addition to the debate over the future of education? >> i have a chapter in my book about... i call them the billionaire boys' club. the billionaires boys' club is led by the three biggest foundations in america, the gates foundation, the walt on foundation and the broads foundation. they give a lot of money to american education. i has
they undermine education. the acculumation of evidence was such that i found i could no longer support no child left behind or any of these programs that say that teachers should compete with one another because they don't. teachers want to work together. they know that they're on the same team. they want to collaborate. the essence of every good school is collaboration and teamwork not competition. >> suarez: another big change in the years you've been talking about has seen foundations...
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but children will go on to get a lot of education. they will be contributing members of society >> great programs. oklahoma is the model program. it's done by republicans. so it should be a bipartisan source of agreement. but still these things do cost a lot of money. when they've tried to expand early childhood in places like california with rob reiner's proposition it's hit political head wind and was defeated. these are not easy lists. they're reasonably expensive. to me worth doing but they're heavy. >> woodruff: what about raising the minimum wage? we just double checked it. it's $7.25 i believe right now. to raise it to $9 an hour? >> well, you know, i think it's a pretty straightforward argument. if you work 40 hours a week, 52 hours or 52 weeks a year, you should rise above poverty. i mean... >> woodruff: that was his argument >> that's the argument. i think it's a straightforward one. $9 an hour. 10 states already linked their minimum wage to inflation. >> the counterargument of course is that actually relatively few people a
but children will go on to get a lot of education. they will be contributing members of society >> great programs. oklahoma is the model program. it's done by republicans. so it should be a bipartisan source of agreement. but still these things do cost a lot of money. when they've tried to expand early childhood in places like california with rob reiner's proposition it's hit political head wind and was defeated. these are not easy lists. they're reasonably expensive. to me worth doing...
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more educated and healthier children. it is a way of breaking the cycle of poverty. a lot of what i have written about in this book is an extremist attitudes towards women, and those go hand-in-hand with attitudes that are extremist in general. there is a linkage there in terms of economics, in terms of political stability, and in terms of security. tavis: where are we seeing the least amount of paradise? >> there are three regions and the world that have lagged the most in terms of improving the status of women -- sub-saharan africa, the middle east, and south asia. the book i have written focuses on the middle east and south asia and focuses on very conservative islamic countries, which struggle not only with culture, tradition, patriarchy, which exist around the world, but it has an overlay of religion, religious justification for keeping women from realizing their fullest. tavis: how do we read it what you have written so powerfully in the book? how do we read this as an honest critique and not a bashing of his mom? >
more educated and healthier children. it is a way of breaking the cycle of poverty. a lot of what i have written about in this book is an extremist attitudes towards women, and those go hand-in-hand with attitudes that are extremist in general. there is a linkage there in terms of economics, in terms of political stability, and in terms of security. tavis: where are we seeing the least amount of paradise? >> there are three regions and the world that have lagged the most in terms of...
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if you take k-12 education i gave a speech to the chief education officers and talked about they might have to take that seniority and master's degree money which is not correlated with teaching excellence and assign some of it to the incentive systems for excellence. the best case for k-12 is to be pretty flat and some states like california actually and new york or illinois going down. so it's a very tough problem. i don't want us to cut educational spending. one of the biggest gaps between 2006 or 2008 discretionary and 2010 is telegrams. so states have been raising tuition and things. part of the reason the community college system hasn't totally fallen apart is because the federal level is spending a lot of money on pell grant. i think that's very good. but that's one of these things that there will be this argument about if you want to get discretionary spending back down. on energy, the president seemed to say that he'd go after certain tax breaks for the oil industry in order to find i think $3 or $4 billion for the energy r&d he believes in. i think that's probably a good thin
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he is leading a movement to bring classical music and education to a new generation. we're glad you can join us. our conversation with former british prime minister gordon brown coming up right now. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference, >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance proudly supports tavis smiley. tavis and nationwide insurance, working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles. >> and from contributions to your pbs station from veers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: gordon brown is, of course, the former prime minister of great britain whose public service includes his time as english chancellor of the exchequer and he has released a text about the economic downturn called "beyond the crash." overcoming the first crisis of globalization. he joins us tonight from new york. it is an honor to have you on this program. >> it is a pleasure. tavis: let me start by asking the obviou
he is leading a movement to bring classical music and education to a new generation. we're glad you can join us. our conversation with former british prime minister gordon brown coming up right now. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference, >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance proudly supports tavis smiley. tavis and nationwide...
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, or physical education. it is maddening. >> since you all went there for those that do believe in the arts that they are elitist, what is your response? >> but they aren't. many think about someone saying that i wasn't giving a view to all these wonderful composers whose music i had performed, we have to understand that in vienna, in 1800, the music of schubert was the popular music of the day. so the fact that we have something else nowadays that we call popular music and we want to put classical music in a corner someplace, that is our mistake. i have never agreed with it. i have been saying it for 30 years. i have done one thing clever in my entire life. i was doing an interview after making my debut in berlin about 2324 years old or something. what kind of soprano are you? what is that? think iwell, i don't should have to say that now because i feel that pigeonholes are only comfortable for pigeons. and i still feel that way. and that we shouldn't put classical music over here and the blues over here som
, or physical education. it is maddening. >> since you all went there for those that do believe in the arts that they are elitist, what is your response? >> but they aren't. many think about someone saying that i wasn't giving a view to all these wonderful composers whose music i had performed, we have to understand that in vienna, in 1800, the music of schubert was the popular music of the day. so the fact that we have something else nowadays that we call popular music and we want...
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qatar's education city is home to several major u.s. universities cornell, carnegie mellon and about 1,500 students; and it is truly a fantastic experiment. the massive investment in higher education we see in qatar is in fact taking place worldwide. we see that in the 140 million students in higher education institutions today, four times as many as in 1970. and, china now has more higher education enrollments than we do. what does this all of this mean for the united states? for sure, we benefit from a more and better educated population overseas. but we also face some risks. because as everybody else invests in higher education, the united states will no longer be the obvious choice for the worlds talent; both students and faculty. i've seen this happen in our own searches for young faculty, lured away by attractive offers from foreign universities. the competition is not exactly fierce today, but if we continue to lose talent, how can we maintain the best universities for your kids and mine? and how can we maintain our edge in innov
qatar's education city is home to several major u.s. universities cornell, carnegie mellon and about 1,500 students; and it is truly a fantastic experiment. the massive investment in higher education we see in qatar is in fact taking place worldwide. we see that in the 140 million students in higher education institutions today, four times as many as in 1970. and, china now has more higher education enrollments than we do. what does this all of this mean for the united states? for sure, we...
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then, is abstinence-only education to blame for the rise in teen pregnancy and std rates? behind the headlines, expanding opportunities for women and girls around the world. [ ♪music ] >> bonnie: hello, i'm bonnie erbÉ. welcome to "to the contrary," a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. up first, health care reform and middle class woes: barack obama looked more like candidate obama this week as he took to the road, pitching his health care reform plan. he dried to stoke support among americans by focusing on the concerns of middle class families, that as public support for the plan is declining. a new associated press poll finds the number disapprove of the president's health care plan stands at 43%, up from just 28% in april. some conservatives call the plan another entitlement program for the poor funded on the backs of the middle class. the president supports raising taxes on upper income americans to fund the overhaul. a middle class rebellion killed health care reform back in 1994 when it was attempted by the clinton administration. but
then, is abstinence-only education to blame for the rise in teen pregnancy and std rates? behind the headlines, expanding opportunities for women and girls around the world. [ ♪music ] >> bonnie: hello, i'm bonnie erbÉ. welcome to "to the contrary," a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. up first, health care reform and middle class woes: barack obama looked more like candidate obama this week as he took to the road, pitching his health care reform...
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so it's a big challenge at all levels, i think and american education is to reinvent what we think education is. >> charlie: what about video games? >> well, there are video games that i think could be useful but there are many video games that are not useful. we had an interesting article in every year i try in having a special issue in science magazine on education. science of education and last year's special issue had a very nice article analyzing what's the video games and other modern communications have done to the way kids think. in some ways it made them more creative in some ways and other ways, they're missing aspects. fundamental, they call them lessons, we need a mixture of different kinds of experience for kids to make them able to be productive and creative citizens. and the emphasis in science class starting with kindergartennen should be on solving problems to the appropriate level. then the kids struggle with trying to solve some question before the teacher tells them the answer. right now we have science education defined in many places from all the way through college is
so it's a big challenge at all levels, i think and american education is to reinvent what we think education is. >> charlie: what about video games? >> well, there are video games that i think could be useful but there are many video games that are not useful. we had an interesting article in every year i try in having a special issue in science magazine on education. science of education and last year's special issue had a very nice article analyzing what's the video games and...
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but in america, if you work hard, education is the ticket. and when i read about the lotteries, tom friedman wrote the article about the lottery and i read it in "the new york times", i thought this is it, this is a metaphor. it wasn't spoused to be about charters although that is what some of the critics talk about. but it is about kids shouldn't have to win a chance at a great education. >> rose: we conclude this evening with clay christensen, the popular professor at harvard business school talking about life and teaching. >> then i asked the student that you also need to come to class having prepared to show clay christensen what's wrong with his theory. and as i try to engage them not just to tell me what it does, but what it doesn't do, i walk out thinking holy cow, i can't believe they paid me to learn from my students. >> rose: exactly. shelton, guggenheim, christensen. when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. meals for the needy. or maybe you want to help when the unexpected happens. whatever you w
but in america, if you work hard, education is the ticket. and when i read about the lotteries, tom friedman wrote the article about the lottery and i read it in "the new york times", i thought this is it, this is a metaphor. it wasn't spoused to be about charters although that is what some of the critics talk about. but it is about kids shouldn't have to win a chance at a great education. >> rose: we conclude this evening with clay christensen, the popular professor at harvard...
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we've reached a critical crossroads when it comes to funding higher education in this country. what we've always done isn't working anymore. it's time for a thoughtful redesign of the post-secondary system. the fast forward must be focused on better serving the growing number of low income. first generation, minority and adult students across america. the great recession exposed our needs for a more education work force and a new system that can deliver it. if we intend to compete in the global economy, we have to find a way to train a lot more workers for skilled jobs. it could be the most serious challenge that we face as a nation and it's time for policy makers and business leaders to take action. i'm jamie merisotis. >> some of us parents, of course i'm 20 years away from second de, still packing lunches for the second grader. >> make sure they do their homework and get good grades. >> tom: that's "nightly business report" for tuesday, august 21. good night, susie, and everyone. >> susie: good night, tom. thanks for watching, everyone. we'll see you online at nbr.com and ba
we've reached a critical crossroads when it comes to funding higher education in this country. what we've always done isn't working anymore. it's time for a thoughtful redesign of the post-secondary system. the fast forward must be focused on better serving the growing number of low income. first generation, minority and adult students across america. the great recession exposed our needs for a more education work force and a new system that can deliver it. if we intend to compete in the global...